Category: Passions
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Piano
I took 5 years of music training and 3 years of piano lessons. One day, My dad was going through some economical strain and me and my siblings had to drop our music classes.
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Music
Both my parents were fond of classical music and they raised me and my two siblings listening to the works of many great composers and performers of all times. Geniuses such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Handel, Chopin, etc. Out of all the classical music, they always showed preference to the works by Bach and…
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Water-Skiing
Here in BC we have thousands of lakes of all sizes and shapes perfect for fishing and practicing all kind of water sports. During the winter most of the lakes freeze and you can safely walk over them and drive a snowmobile at dazzling speeds. Ice fishing is also very common. Drill a hole in…
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Tennis
When I was on my late teens I used to go to a place called “La Ola” near Sondika airport in Bilbao with my two Iker friends. Watching the Roland Garros and Winbledom games inspired me to go out there and try some lame serves and forehands of my own.
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Table-Tennis
Like so many other things in life, I decided to dig a little further than the average nerdy boy when I developed this unexplainable ping-pong fever.
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Soccer
At the beginning of the sports section I mention that there are only two sports from the list that I am good at, well, not really. Indeed , I have played soccer for many years, but for european standards I started to play the game relatively late at the age of ten.
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Snowmobiling
Snowmobiles are high powered super fast snow devourers. There are some facts that I found interesting about these beasts of the white world. I really like their continuously variable pulley transmission systems that get rid of any gear boxes and makes them so easy to drive with just a lever to push and send you…
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Snowboarding
I always thought that winter sports were for rich, stuck-up stupid people. Although to certain extent that was a misconception I still think along the same lines even today. However that does not have to do anything with snowboarding so never mind.
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Shooting
I am no hunter or ever belonged to an armed organized crime group but a few times I have shot real guns on a shooting range. It was fun but I could stop thinking that this little noisy inventions were originally design to kill people among many other living beings. I have an immense respect…
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Skydiving
Arc thousand, two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, check thousand!!! Are you crazy or what?. Jumping from an small airplane flying at 180mph and 1000ft up in the air, you nuts? Yep! I guess so.